energeō · be at work

What it means

energeō (ἐνεργέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “be at work”.

Operate with power; bring about.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To be powerfully active within something or someone.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• work ×10
• works ×6
• worked ×3
• working ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 2 Corinthians×2
• Galatians×4
• Ephesians×4
• Philippians×2
• Colossians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• 2 Thessalonians×1
• James×1

• Matthew 14:2

  and he said to his servants, “This is John the Immerser; he has been raised from the dead, and that is why the powers are at work in him.”

• Mark 6:14

  And King Herod heard of it, for his name had become known; and people were saying, “John the Immerser has been raised from the dead, and that is why these powers are at work in him.”

• Romans 7:5

  For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

• 1 Corinthians 12:6

  and there are varieties of workings, but the same God who works all things in all.

• 1 Corinthians 12:11

  But all these things the one and the same Spirit works, distributing to each one individually just as he wills.

• 2 Corinthians 1:6

  If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is at work in perseverance in the same sufferings that we also suffer.

• 2 Corinthians 4:12

  So death is at work in us, but life in you.

• Galatians 2:8

  (for the one who worked in Peter for the apostleship of the circumcision worked also in me for the nations),

• Galatians 3:5

  So the one who supplies to you the Spirit and works miracles among you, does he do it by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

• Galatians 5:6

  For in the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is worth anything, but faith working through love.

• Ephesians 1:11

  in whom we also obtained an inheritance, having been destined beforehand according to the purpose of the one who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

• Ephesians 1:20

  which he has worked in the Messiah when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,

• Ephesians 2:2

  in which you once walked, according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience;

• Ephesians 3:20

  Now to the one who is able to do far beyond all things, immeasurably more than what we ask or think, according to the power that is at work in us,

• Philippians 2:13

  for it is God who works in you both to will and to work for the sake of his good pleasure.

• Colossians 1:29

  To this end I also labor, striving according to his working which works in me in power.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:13

  And for this reason we also thank God unceasingly, that when you received the word you heard from us, the word of God, you accepted it not as the word of human beings but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:7

  For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only the one who restrains does so now until he is taken out of the way.

• James 5:16

  So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The supplication of a righteous person is very powerful in its working.

And 2 more times.